Possible Clues:

• Unwieldy
• To arrive without pigments is awkward
• Unmanageable figures with no opening within reach
• Awkward to handle cucumber, so messy sandwiches
• Land taken from previous county, in part hard to manage
• Hard to handle Brown's blocking approach
• Seeing off rum, becomes awkward
• Arrive without figures not initially hard to manage
• Breaking two bits off salad plant a bit awkward
• 'It's awkward, but this will sure comb me (10)'